President s it established and the legacies that left. There is a strong case to be made that november 11, the day that a battered square rigor called the mayflower made safe harbor in a place near what is today in massachusetts. That day should be one of the greatest moments in our national theory, comparable to fourth of july, independence day, and september 17, constitution day. But let me qualify that statement a little bit. As ourk of the pilgrims forebears and we are right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new puritans that were selling new england at the time did not imagine they were settling establishing the United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The early settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations they wanted, what the spaniards wanted from the
We think of the pilgrims as our forbearers and we have a right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new englanders settling at the time did not imagine they were settling United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations, gold, wealth, material wealth. The settlers of new england were driven by religious zeal. Most of them were puritans, men and women of a company spent who believed the church of england had not gone far enough to purge itself of its corrupt aspects and would despair of a cleansing renewal ever coming in their lifetimes, and hence their decision to emigrate to the new beginning. In particular were not only calvinists but separatists, meaning they had separated themselves from the aurch of england as they
Good morning and welcome to the final day of the third week of Donald Trumps criminal hush money trial, where the former president just reentered the courthouse here in manhattan. Were you all again go before the prosecution as they are going to bring a witness back on the stand, a witness that we saw yesterday . Should i stillman that older testimony when court ended, soon again, trump will be part of that captive audience that is going to be listening to the prosecutions version of a trump tale, a sexual when counter with the Adult Film Star that the former president allegedly tried to keep hidden. From american voters. Yesterday for the first time, the jury actually got two hear trumps boys and thats secretly recorded audio tape. Good morning. Im Kaitlan Collins here in new york thank caitlin. Im John Mccarthy austin here in washington. And you are watching cnn Special Coverage of Donald Trumps hush money cover up, trial in minutes from now, testimony, resumes and zeros in on trumps
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Price to pay for petulance, a year in jail for the Korean Airline executive, who caused a scene over the way she was served nuts on a flight. Also on the program, aarons here, of course. Those emergency talks between greece and the eu. David, they could hardly agree to disagree. They couldnt even agree on the wording for a statement. But boy, let me tell you, the clock is ticking. Greece has just over two weeks before it could run out of money. And now one in four economists say they believe that greece will be forced to exit the euro zone. Hello. A ceasefire has been agreed in Eastern Ukraine. It comes after months of fighting of course which has left more than 5,000 people dead in and large areas in ruins. The agreement which comes into effect on midnight on saturday night was reached between the leaders of russia ukraine, germany, and france in minsk, the capital of belarus. But there are already questions over whether it will stick. One rebel field commander has told the bbc, we wo